I think the idea here is that prosecutors could feasibly prove, by testimony or medical expert evidence, that the victim was blackout drunk (i.e., "incapacitated due to the influence of drugs, alcohol, or medication, so that the complainant could not understand the fact, nature, or extent of the sexual activity.") In…

Yeah, I am unclear on this as well. The article says something like, "this takes the onus off victims to prove their own rapes," suggesting we're not just talking about a different standard of consent but a different burden of proof. So, does the school/state need only prove that sex occurred, and the burden shifts…

I can't tell if you're a parody account but, either way, bravo.

Other commenters are saying that there are Arabs in the Knesset, etc., so I sort of doubt that citizenship rights are limited by ethnicity.

So — I'm really asking — when people accuse Israel of racist apartheid, to what are they referring? Are there citizenship requirements that are facially neutral, in terms of religion/ethnicity, but in practice are more difficult for Arabs to satisfy?

Well, I am neither a Jew nor religious. And I don't claim to lack any "extraneous information" whatsoever — I think I know the basics as most people do. I wasn't lying when I said I'd be open to info/argument; that said, I expected answers to my questions, which were neither unfair/slanted nor rhetorical in nature. …

uh lol. What is he referring to, then?

i am extremely pro- open immigration (at least in the USA), but agree w/your gist. i think the view ITT really is that israel should just concede it has no right to exist.

Do they really have a racist apartheid state — if you're not a Jew, you're confined to a slum and you can't vote or hold a decent job, as w/blacks in South Africa? I feel like I would have read about this, and would probably not know any gentiles who'd blithely vacationed or studied in Israel. Is it just Arabs —…

privacy is an anachronism

I'm not being disingenuous, here: Why? My post probably has a pro-Israeli slant because I lost my attn span for this issue circa high school, but I am open to what seems to be the prevailing view, which is...well, I guess I'm trying to refine my understanding of what the prevailing view is.

This is not a rhetorical but a sincere question, as I really don't follow this conflict: What should Israel do?

I am not an expert on IUDs or Plan B. All I know is that, for the purposes of this case, the govt never contested that both methods can prevent implantation. So, if the fact is conceded by the other side it's treated as true, and frankly I'd assume that if it were a complete misconception the govt would have said…

This claim is not part of their dogma nor is it in any of their religious texts, it is a claim they simply made up recently.

A lie is an intentional misstatement of fact. Religious beliefs don't necessarily assert "fact," and a sincere assertion of any belief is never intentionally false.

Except that religious beliefs — at least as treated in constitutional jurisprudence — don't purport to be experimentally-verifiable (or -falsifiable) statements of fact about the physical world. They're things that people believe irrespective of whether supporting (or even contradictory) evidence exists. Is …

Would I want it done to me? Not necessarily, though I would probably be more amused than affronted. However: If I were offered the chance to make hundreds of millions of dollars as an entertainment celebrity, I would accept readily, even knowing that legions of sickos would inevitably have sick sexual fantasies…

It would be different if the storiesinvaded the celebrities' privacy (depicted things they'd actually done, which were previously unknown to the world) or if the stories were defamatory, but...pure off-the-wall fantasy? I could write and post here, for thousands to read, that bloodsweatcheers enjoys sex with…

Eh — public figures? If you set out to be a rockstar or movie star, you basically sign up for the whole people-having-grotesque-fantasies-about-you deal. And the people spending their time writing this (young girls on tumblr most likely) are not spending time sending you blood-drenched love letters or lurking in the…

Why are we reading this? Why do I want to know this? Can you post more HamNo anticapitalist screeds instead? Anything. Pls.